Success of top matriculants all spelt out
THE Scripps National Spelling Bee was cancelled last year owing to the Covid-19 pandemic and is hoped to return in June this year.
In the past Scripps National Spelling Bee,in 2019, there were eight winners: Rishik Gandhasri, Erin Howard, Saketh Sundar, Shruthika Padhy, Sohum Sukhatankar, Abhijay Kodali, Christopher Serrao and Rohan Raja.
Looking at their names, you might think the winners were from New Delhi or Mumbai or other parts of India. Not so.
However, while they are all from the US, seven of the eight winners can trace their ancestry to India.
A spelling bee is a competition in which contestants are asked to spell a broad selection of
